[DCRM-L] French printing term

[W.A. Hale]

On Feb 5 2009, Hanusek, Denise wrote:

>            I am hoping that someone on the list can help me with an 
> unfamiliar printing term that I have come across recently. I am 
> cataloging a 17th century rare book printed (I believe) in Utrecht in 
> French. Just above the imprint it says "Iouxte l'Imprime." And then "a 
> Utrecht. M.DC.LXXIII."
>
>            I have "Googled" iouxte and it seems to have different 
> possibilities for meaning. It might mean "according to," also "adjoining 
> or contiguous to." But then, does that mean, if this book is printed 
> "according to" the printing from Utrecht, has this book has actually been 
> printed somewhere else? Utrecht is the only city on the t.p. Iouxte seems 
> also to be connected with fictitious imprints.

"According to" is right. It's generally in very small print and easy to 
miss so the unwary book buyer (or cataloguer!) might mistake a pirated copy 
for the original edition. Your book is almost certainly a pirated edition, 
printed elsewhere, of a work originally printed in Utrecht. If you look it 
up in a specialised bibliography such as Weller's "Die falschen und 
fingirten Druckorte" you may be able to find out more.

-- 
William Hale.

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